02804nam 2200613 a 450 991110429870332120251117100210.097818415077741841507776(CKB)2670000000336480(EBL)1114559(OCoLC)827208986(SSID)ssj0000968966(PQKBManifestationID)12478849(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000968966(PQKBWorkID)10985968(PQKB)10045058(MiAaPQ)EBC1114559(Au-PeEL)EBL1114559(CaPaEBR)ebr10651459(CaONFJC)MIL929039(Perlego)572650(EXLCZ)99267000000033648020130208d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWhy I buy self, taste, and consumer society in America /Rami Gabriel1st ed.Bristol Intellect20131 online resource (174 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781841506456 1841506451 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: My Self and Consumer Society; Chapter 1: Dualism: What I Really Am; Chapter 2: Individualism: The Liberal Dream of the Rugged Individualist; Chapter 3: Expressivism: I Sing Myself; Chapter 4: Consumer Society; Chapter 5: Advertisements: Representations of the Self; Chapter 6: The Rest of the World: An Empirical Test; Conclusion: What Next?; Bibliography; Appendix; Index; Back CoverThis is a book about the relationship between the self and consumer society in America. There are many books and articles that explain consumerism in the twentieth century. through politics, economics, and sociology. Th is book is about both the psychological roots of consumer society in the self-why we buy-and the reciprocal influences between self and society. Why I buy explains how consumption came to imbue social and personal life and value. By exploring the relationship between oue individual needs and our institutions, Gabriel shows how many of the difficulties faced by our shared socialConsumption (Economics)United StatesHistoryConsumersUnited StatesHistoryConsumption (Economics)History.ConsumersHistory.339.47339.470973381.30973Gabriel Rami1997175MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911104298703321Why I buy4777922UNINA04480nam 2200853Ia 450 991110038460332120251117073951.09786612361036978128236103412823610319780520944442052094444510.1525/9780520944442(CKB)2430000000010903(EBL)837293(OCoLC)773565056(SSID)ssj0000294139(PQKBManifestationID)11227299(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000294139(PQKBWorkID)10311773(PQKB)10061665(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056019(MiAaPQ)EBC837293(DE-B1597)520629(OCoLC)1110719741(DE-B1597)9780520944442(Au-PeEL)EBL837293(CaPaEBR)ebr10675751(CaONFJC)MIL236103(Perlego)551199(EXLCZ)99243000000001090320081119d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDissimulation and the culture of secrecy in early modern Europe /Jon R. Snyder1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20091 online resource (307 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780520274631 0520274636 9780520228191 0520228197 Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-271) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: Lost Horizons -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Not Empty Silence. The Age of Dissimulation -- 2. Taking One's Distance. Civil and Moral Dissimulation -- 3. Confidence Games. Dissimulation at Court -- 4. The Government of Designs. Dissimulation and Reason of State -- 5. The Writing on the Walls -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and commoners alike-chose to practice the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men and women who could not risk revealing their inner lives to those around them, this art of incommunicativity was crucial, both personally and politically. Many writers and intellectuals sought to explain, expose, justify, or condemn the emergence of this new culture of secrecy, and from Naples to the Netherlands controversy swirled for two centuries around the powers and limits of dissimulation, whether in affairs of state or affairs of the heart. This beautifully written work crisscrosses Europe, with a special focus on Italy, to explore attitudes toward the art of dissimulation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Discussing many canonical and lesser-known works, Jon R. Snyder examines the treatment of dissimulation in early modern treatises and writings on the court, civility, moral philosophy, political theory, and in the visual arts.SecrecySocial aspectsItalyHistoryTruthfulness and falsehoodSocial aspectsItalyHistoryInterpersonal communicationItalyHistorySecrecySocial aspectsEuropeHistoryTruthfulness and falsehoodSocial aspectsEuropeHistoryInterpersonal communicationEuropeHistoryItalySocial life and customs16th centuryItalySocial life and customs17th centuryItalySocial life and customsSourcesEuropeSocial life and customsSecrecySocial aspectsHistory.Truthfulness and falsehoodSocial aspectsHistory.Interpersonal communicationHistory.SecrecySocial aspectsHistory.Truthfulness and falsehoodSocial aspectsHistory.Interpersonal communicationHistory.302.2094/0903Snyder Jon R.1954-298299MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911100384603321Dissimulation and the culture of secrecy in early modern Europe4732482UNINA